Pope Leo XIV is set to declare seven individuals as saints this Sunday, a group that includes remarkable figures such as an Italian lawyer who abandoned Satanism to become “an apostle of the rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan revered as the “doctor of the poor.”

These canonizations, initially approved by the late Pope Francis, will take place at the Vatican on October 19 under the guidance of Pope Leo XIV. The cohort comprises four men and three women, including two martyrs, three laypeople, and two founders of religious communities. Significantly, the list features Papua New Guinea’s first saint and the first two saints from Venezuela.

Here is a closer look at these extraordinary individuals poised to enter the canon of the Church:

Bartolo Longo (1841–1926)

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